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Intel Core Ultra 9 285k 'Arrow Lake' Discussion/News ("15th gen") on LGA-1851

First update, whether its part of the fixes I doubt it, is out for some boards and it seems to disable DLVR voltage override.

The BIOS DLVR can still be re-enabled if you hook up LN2 cooling, but otherwise it's going to be disabled, limiting voltage control options for overclockers
 
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No vcache for Intel desktop CPUs in 2025:

But vcache is planned to be used in Xeon server CPUs next year. Maybe they don’t think it would be competitive, or the production cost would be too high?

Intel is gonna have a bad time.
 
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No vcache for Intel desktop CPUs in 2025:

But vcache is planned to be used in Xeon server CPUs next year. Maybe they don’t think it would be competitive, or the production cost would be too high?

Intel is gonna have a bad time.

The response from Intel is lame. They say they won't put Vcache on desktop CPUs because it's only good for gaming, but they give Vcache to server CPU which doesn't play games?


We'll if Intel thinks they can beat AMD's gaming performance without cache then more power to them, let's see how the gamble goes.. or maybe Intel doesn't care about gaming performance anymore
 
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The response from Intel is lame. They say they won't put Vcache on desktop CPUs because it's only good for gaming, but they give Vcache to server CPU which doesn't play games?


We'll if Intel thinks they can beat AMD's gaming performance without cache then more power to them, let's see how the gamble goes.. or maybe Intel doesn't care about gaming performance anymore
I think it’s virtually impossible that Intel could compete with AMD on gaming by late 2025. Given the large advantage they already have with the 9800X3D.

I don’t think Intel will be able to catch up until they release 2nm desktop CPUs, presumably in late 2026.

I think the Arrow Lake refresh series will give Zen 6 CPUs without vcache some competition. Notably, both will make use of different TSMC 3nm fab. processes.
 
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It shouldn’t, although differences in that “review” are tiny. I don’t know if I would trust the results from a guy that opened a review channel this year.

He's not the only one, several people have come up with the same thing - SSDs run slower and games take longer to load. Yeah not massive difference, talking like 10-15% performance degradation vs 12th, 13th and 14th gen but still annoying. Tom's Hardware's 285k showed the same thing, they specifically benchmarked game load times for their review and found the same thing
 
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He's not the only one, several people have come up with the same thing - SSDs run slower and games take longer to load. Yeah not massive difference, talking like 10-15% performance degradation vs 12th, 13th and 14th gen but still annoying. Tom's Hardware's 285k showed the same thing, they specifically benchmarked game load times for their review and found the same thing
Which part is slower? Is it the bus? With 13th-14th gen PCI-E instability was one of the symptoms of a degraded/bad CPU, so maybe Intel turned things down, or it is something occurring from the changed design?
 
Which part is slower? Is it the bus? With 13th-14th gen PCI-E instability was one of the symptoms of a degraded/bad CPU, so maybe Intel turned things down, or it is something occurring from the changed design?
It could be that tiles and added latency could be impacting BW. I wouldn’t be surprised if this is one of the issues identified by Intel
 
I like HUB's CPU reviews because they test games I usually play. I went through their 45 game list and I've played 36 of those games so the results are highly relevant to me as a consumer
 
The response from Intel is lame. They say they won't put Vcache on desktop CPUs because it's only good for gaming, but they give Vcache to server CPU which doesn't play games?


We'll if Intel thinks they can beat AMD's gaming performance without cache then more power to them, let's see how the gamble goes.. or maybe Intel doesn't care about gaming performance anymore
For both these vendors a bigger cash cow is the server market. AMD is absolutely dominating this sector right now, so from a business perspective it makes sense for Intel to try and reclaim some of this. 1% of the sever market it more commercially attractive than 1% of the enthusiast/gamer market.

There a many different workloads with different data I/O characteristics for server compute, so Intel might see a section of this market where vcache works well.
 
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